HPfGU Geography - Durmstrang

[bviridis]

No: HPFGUIDX 92039

I guess it has been discussed to death, but as I was kindly directed 
to the Geography section in HPfGU Fantastic Posts, in the section on 
location of Durmstrang, in the Latvia subsection, it's clearly stated:
(quote)
CON: None so far; if you have arguments for this category, please 
bring them up on the list. 

So please put aside your rotten tomatoes or change the note :)

Anyway may arguments for insuitability of Latvia are:
1. flat as a pancake
2. more or less at the same latitude as Hogwarts, so there stressing 
"very short days in winter" won't have so much sense.

Personally I vote for Karelia region, because:
1. it's on the extreme border of German influence
2. the hills - small ones - are sligtly bigger than in Latvia; terrain 
there is more rugged
3. more to north than Scotland (~Shetlands/Faroe)

Cheers, Viridis
PS. Can somebody explain to me the sense of existence of the nearly 
identically named yahoo groups (Hary_Potter_for_Grownups and HP (Harry 
 Potter)forGrownups? This a rhetorical question, BTW.